Silicon Valley may be an epicenter of the nascent electric car
industry, but don’t expect the battery revolution to mimic the computer
revolution, one of I.B.M.’s top energy storage scientists advises.
“Forget Moore’s Law — it’s nothing like that,” said Winfried Wilcke, senior manager for I.B.M.’s Battery 500 project, referring to the maxim put forward by Gordon Moore, an Intel founder, that computer processing power doubles roughly every two years.
“Lithium ion, which clearly is the best battery technology today, is flat, completely flat since 2003,” Mr. Wilcke said last week at a gathering in San Francisco attended by executives from I.B.M. and Better Place, a Silicon Valley electric car infrastructure company.
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Author: TODD WOODY
